Posted on 10/31/2013 5:44:55 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The Justice and State departments are now citing a year-old FBI investigation and a future criminal prosecution to block access to survivors of last year’s Benghazi terror attack.
In an Oct. 28 letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,the State Department’s Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Julia Frifield, refers to "significant risks" and "serious concerns about having the survivors of the attack submit to additional interviews."
Graham has been asking since last year for the FBI’s transcripts of interviews with State Department and CIA survivors who were evacuated to Germany after the Sep.11 attack on the U.S. consulate.
He and other Republicans believe the transcripts will show the survivors told the FBI it was a terrorist attack and made no mention of a video or anti-U.S. demonstration at the consulate.
This intelligence was likely available to the president, his national security team and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who five days after the assault blamed it on an anti-U.S. demonstration and inflammatory video.
"You can't hide behind a criminal investigation," Graham told reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill. "That's not a good reason to deny the Congress witness statements 48 hours after the attack."
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and its Republican Chairman, Darell Issa, recently interviewed – against the Justice Department’s wishes -- two State Department security agents who have firsthand knowledge of the attack, leading one Democratic lawmaker to predict the move would create inconsistencies and complicate a trial.
"As a prosecutor, you never want your witnesses to be interviewed by multiple sources. It just lends itself to the possibility of unintentional conflicts within their statements," Rep.Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News.
"It concerns me that that was not a higher.....
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How is that possible?!?!? The state department is a law unto itself and needs to be abolished or in the very least completely gutted and rebuilt... all these damned government bureaucracies have become dens of progressive ideology and lawlessness... damn them to hell!!
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan
islamism. The White House & State Department are saturated in it.
Many thanks to Texas Fossil for putting this list in order and removing the duplicates I missed.
This is a Threat Matrix list documenting threats within and without. Anyone wanting on or off please advise.
This is the Benghazi Index for reference.
Benghazi was all about transferring THOUSANDS of man pads missiles into the hands of those who attacked us on 9 11.
For defense they could use Tripoli SF but not Sicily forces because the Pre would have to approve that
A rescue would have attracted more public attention on to this huge and dirty black operation right before a re-election bid
VJ wanted them to quietly DIE
defund state dept til they fess up
They are hiding something really big.
Do you notice how we hear almost nothing about Syria now that the one year anniversary of Benghazi is well in the past?
that was probably the most successful diversion this bumbling administration has pulled off.
Bump!
What they were hiding is the gun running that OUR government was doing out of our embassy.
Just as David sent his rival to die 0 sent the ambassador. We need to look deeper to see where their lives crossed before he was appointed ambassador
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Agree.
The State Department is full of traitors.
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